Fun Fun for Everyone

Wow, great times all around :) I promise that lil Herts is still there, so he should turn up before too long. Yell if you don't find him...he'll respond. And beat him up if he thinks he's too cool for you guys since he's so wrong about that.

Sounds like there are parties in Amherst, Jordan, France, and Mia's internet cafe full of Bosnian men playing WoW. Sad that I missed them, but Jenna's been circulating some awesome party ideas for the fall (poker/whiskey nights on Thursdays, anyone!?)

But as for what I'm doing now, well, it's busy busy busy.

So it turns out this IT job isn't like the ones I've had before. Most of the time I'm a cog in the machine - just one guy, one task at a time, one problem to manage.

Here I'm one of two people serving a staff of over one hundred. I have to host our server, too, and it's the sort of thing where - if it breaks - I'm yanked out of whatever I'm doing to go fix it. If an office head needs help, I'm yanked out of whatever I'm doing to go fix it.

In short, I've become a Systems Administrator (or SysAdmin). Being a SysAdmin in IT is a huge, huge amount of work with a lot of important decisions to be made in very little time (think chef in a kitchen). But it's also kind of fun: I get to log into people's systems from another room to install things, I get to choose the theme for the staff photos (Mustachioed T. Rexes, btw), and everyone's really understanding about just how much work the IT duo have to do.

And, in addition to all that, I start teaching in less than a week :) The days are long, the tasks are exhausting, but there's something that I can't quite name here that makes it all somehow satisfying. And we'll see how things go once all the kids get here...

So yes, that's all from me for now. It sounds like everyone's having a wonderful time!

Best,

All Good Things,

Love,

Sincerely,

Last one,

Last one i-promise-this-time,

Dylan